Spandau Calrissian

Spandau Calrissian

@wildebube.bsky.social

On your left. Reply guy extraordinaire. Co-chair of the Dingo-Eaten Baby Havers Club.

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Bruno Dies
@brunodias.dev

Replying to @brunodias.dev

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

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Bilhões and Billions
@omnicr.one

it is hard to sell how effective this was. the far right here was completely lost in the past two weeks because *nothing* of their tried and true methods to dictate public opinion and the media were working. even bot farming views to pump the algo did jack shit

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Rafa Sales Ross
@rafiews.com

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

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Rafa Sales Ross
@rafiews.com

Replying to @rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

Spandau Calrissian
@wildebube.bsky.social

I had no idea what this fucking loser sounded like and now I just want to punch him in the throat.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

Spandau Calrissian
@wildebube.bsky.social

Ken Russell’s The Devils has been so well received in its limited release that they’ve extended its run. If you’ve not seen it, I can’t give it a higher recommendation. The world was not ready for The Devils in 1971. Absolutely worth seeing in the big screen.

Spandau Calrissian
@wildebube.bsky.social

Yes, you should go see You Can See Everything. Doesn’t matter what you think of Elizabeth Holmes, it’s about following this bizarre journey to make this film. I’m still thinking about it.

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29 U.S.C. § 157
@organizingpower.bsky.social

Appalling. The point of this is not that DOJ thinks it can win this suit. It’s to create a “placeholder” suit to block certification for as long as possible while the litigation plays out, denying Peltola her seat.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

* TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SUES TO BLOCK ALASKA SENATE RACE CERTIFICATION IF REPUBLICAN LOSES, CITING CANDIDATE NAME CONFUSION -- AP REPORTER ON X @reuters.com #AKsen

Spandau Calrissian
@wildebube.bsky.social

Mine was literally Star Wars. I was 3 years old in 1977 and my parents took me to the theater. All the lights and sounds and colors and robots and aliens and spaceships and explosions. The deepest of impressions, like at a molecular level.

Mark Thompson@markreckons.bsky.social

First film you saw at the cinema. The real first one, not the pretend one you tell people! Mine: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, Wigan. We were near the front and I can still remember how massive the AT-ATs looked, looming over us out of the snow :) Film, year, where, and whatever stuck with you.

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Spandau Calrissian
@wildebube.bsky.social

I saw it three more times in the theater on its initial theatrical run. When it made its network premiere in 1982, I taped that shit (on Betamax!), cut the commercials while recording, and watched it like 50 times that summer.

Spandau Calrissian
@wildebube.bsky.social

If younger folks ever wonder why Gen X is so fucking weird about Star Wars, the real question is, how could we not be? A cultural nuclear blast, aimed directly at us and hitting with pinpoint accuracy. Star Wars was our Beatles.

Spandau Calrissian
@wildebube.bsky.social

Mine was literally Star Wars. I was 3 years old in 1977 and my parents took me to the theater. All the lights and sounds and colors and robots and aliens and spaceships and explosions. The deepest of impressions, like at a molecular level.

Mark Thompson@markreckons.bsky.social

First film you saw at the cinema. The real first one, not the pretend one you tell people! Mine: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, Wigan. We were near the front and I can still remember how massive the AT-ATs looked, looming over us out of the snow :) Film, year, where, and whatever stuck with you.

Spandau Calrissian
@wildebube.bsky.social

Hardcore MORTDECAI vibes with this one. Ti West fastening concrete slabs to the feet of his career as the water beckons below.

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com

EBENEZER starring Johnny Depp has been rated PG-13 for "Frightening material." Director Ti West stated that he aimed to make a "spookier version" of the classic Charles Dickens tale "than ever before." In theaters November 13.

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻
@rvbdrm.com

Just a regular kid

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Michael Fusella supported President Trump for nearly a decade. But as the Iran war drags on and the cost of living continues to climb, the 21-year-old Republican said he feels betrayed by a president who said he’d end overseas conflicts and lower prices.

washingtonpost.comWhy a recent college grad wants Republicans to ‘step it up’ on affordabilityMichael Fusella, 21, said he feels the American Dream slipping away and wants the party he supports to do more to address rising costs.
Spandau Calrissian
@wildebube.bsky.social

It’s appropriate that “vile” is an anagram of “evil”

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Unearthed footage of Vivek Ramaswamy mocking Amy Acton for being a survivor of childhood abuse: "She has no vision other than to complain about what someone else did to her"

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ESG Hound
@esghound.com

the "video game character boobies are too small now!!!" coalition isn't quite as durable as political experts had assumed in 2024?? interesting

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

Frustrated younger, male voters feeling locked out of the economy and diminishing opportunities are rapidly abandoning the Republican coalition, or straight up opting out of political action altogether

bloom.bgYoung Men Who Helped Get Trump Elected Are ‘Blackpilling’ Out of PoliticsFrustrated by the war in Iran and rising costs, the coalition of young men courted by the GOP is poised to sit out the midterms

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸)
@archhelmer.bsky.social

I can't even begin to imagine the bay area without BART, it's the thread that ties the bay together as a cultural region. It's horrifying that this is on the table

amb@amb.fyi

"BART...is considering cutting 70 percent of its service and closing up to 15 of 50 stations, some 30 percent."

motherjones.comAmerica’s billionaire capital is poised to gut public transitVoters in the San Francisco Bay Area are split on a measure to rescue local transit. Disabled and low-income residents’ mobility is on the line.
Spandau Calrissian
@wildebube.bsky.social

I went and saw Street Fighter with a buddy of mine with whom I used to play the original SFII at a Round Table Pizza in high school when it was new. So mostly a nostalgia exercise.

Spandau Calrissian
@wildebube.bsky.social

Apart from some anachronistic music choices which briefly took me out of it, the film is good spirited fun and a sloppy love letter to the franchise. Does not come close to the highs of the animated film but it’s leagues better than any previous live-action adaptation.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II
@antlervel.vet

“I’ve already climbed all the way up the ladder. Why does the ladder still need to be there?”

Politico@politico.com

“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.

politico.comDo You Really Own Your Home? A Tax Revolt Says No.The argument that property taxes make Americans renters in their own houses has fueled the biggest anti-tax uprising in half a century, and local governments are scrambling.

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mtsw
@mtsw.bsky.social

Replying to @mtsw.bsky.social

its the "hard times create hard men, hard men create soft times, soft times create soft men, soft men create hard times" thing for Boomers being the only generation in American history that got to experience a cradle-to-grave welfare state bsky.app/profile/jack...

Jack Walsh@jackwaltimore.bsky.social

Said it before, I'll say it again: the grimmest political development in my lifetime is that we went from having old people who remember the Depression to having old people who remember the Eisenhower Administration.